I definitely appreciate your compassion, Doug (it was a deeply unfun
experience), and hope your hope proves to be Reality!
& re lovers: I had thought I was being so discreet! ;-)
If I may piggyback here a query to Robin re Ye Olde Six Bells Pub in Horley,
Surrey:
Please xplain that "thorn" or "wynne" or wotever alphabeletter begins "Ye".
My kidhood friends and I in the USA useta refer to the sweet fake-old
American shops as "Yee Oldee Ice Cream Shoppee"----mocking those spellings
that were as mysteriously passed along to us as that damned droop-tailed
"s"!
Beft,
ferioufly fenfual joodlef
2008/6/28 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Utterly gobsmacked by this, Judy.
>
> Fear & loathing everywhere as political failure increases. And now the
> poets & the lovers suffer too?
>
> Hope you get fast tracked next time right on through...
>
> Doug
>
> On 27-Jun-08, at 11:17 AM, Judy Prince wrote:
>
> Glad you and Doug and Sweet P asked!
>>
>> Having sold my house in Virginia on 16 June, I flew to Gatwick Airport
>> 24 June (bad air day, as you will see), was detained for 3 hours,
>> denied entry into the UK, told I'd be scheduled to fly out the next
>> morning back to Virginia. Turned out I was permitted 2 days outside
>> the Detention Center in Gatwick before taking my "guaranteed" seat on
>> a flight back to Virginia on Tuesday, 26 June.
>>
>> BTW, the 2-day "holiday" in Horley, Surrey, nearby Gatwick was
>> FABULOUS!!! I highly recommend Ye Olde Six Bells Pub:
>> <http://www.camrasurrey.org.uk/horley/default.htm>
>>
>> As the site says, the pub dates from 1403, and has valid claims to be
>> one of the oldest pubs in the UK. Most important, for me, is that
>> it's food is thoroly sensational.
>>
>> Now I'm back in VA (have rented lovely digs, in the short term, next
>> to Old Dominion University), and I see why my detention at Gatwick
>> may've been part of the Immigration folks' plan to hold down drug
>> trafficking (no, I don't do drugs, don't deal them, and don't plan
>> to).
>>
>> If you click on <http://www.allabouthorley.co.uk> and scroll down
>> past "Pub Chef to Appeal" (8.04.08) and "34 Years for Murdering Pub
>> Chef" (27.02.08) and "Pub Chef Denies Murder" (5.02.08), you'll see
>> "Heightened Security at Gatwick Airport" (24.01.08).
>>
>> And, yes, the chef did work at Ye Olde Six Bells Pub. Don't know if
>> he was a good chef, but the current one +definitely+ is!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Judy
>>
>> On 6/27/08, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> What about your bad air day? Some noxious gases vented from some
>>> underground cavern?
>>>
>>> On 6/27/08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> so ask me about my bad air day.
>>>>
>>>> judy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> "I began to warm and chill
>>> to objects and their fields"
>>> Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
>>>
>>>
>>
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